The New Jersey federal court on Monday appointed a career federal prosecutor to serve as U.S. attorney for the Garden State in what appears to end a lengthy standoff between district judges and the U.S. Department of Justice over leadership of the office.
The New Jersey federal court on Monday appointed a career federal prosecutor to serve as U.S. attorney for the Garden State in what appears to end a lengthy standoff between district judges and the U.S. Department of Justice over leadership of the office.
Four groups of amici have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Johnson & Johnson's challenge to a Third Circuit decision allowing a securities class action over its talc products to proceed, warning the ruling could reshape how shareholder suits are litigated nationwide.
A late Sunday runway collision between an Air Canada passenger jet and a fire truck marked the first deadly accident at LaGuardia Airport in more than three decades, federal and state officials said, raising troubling questions about air traffic control procedures at one of the busiest airports serving the New York metropolitan area.
Drugmaker Novartis collected patients' personal and health information through pharmaceutical marketing websites and transmitted it to third parties including Google using "surreptitious online tracking tools" without patients' consent, a proposed class action in New Jersey federal court alleges.
A New York University computer science professor on Monday told a federal jury in Manhattan he was unlawfully fired from a lucrative job at Cognizant Technology Solutions for alleging the New Jersey information technology company was engaging in hiring practices that favored immigrant workers from India.
A group of Democratic state attorneys general pushed congressional leaders to enact legislation that would require timely refunds of all duties levied under the now-invalidated International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, including interest.
Reed Smith LLP is urging a New Jersey state trial court to allow it to resume its deposition of a former attorney suing it for gender discrimination years after the last deposition date in the wake of an appeals court decision widely expanding the scope of discovery.
A former paralegal at Rainone Coughlin Minchello LLC has alleged the New Jersey municipal-law firm violated the New Jersey Family Leave Act in illegally firing her after she sought intermittent family leave to care for her mother‑in‑law following a debilitating stroke.
A New Jersey appellate panel has ruled that an estate can't recover attorney fees under the state statute governing nursing home residents' rights because the jury in an underlying wrongful‑death and negligence trial found no damages tied to any statutory violation.
Pennsylvania's attorney general urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let him intervene in Third Circuit proceedings after a panel allowed a utility's transmission line project to proceed, saying it'd "stripped" Pennsylvania of its right to regulate state land use.
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will not review a decision vacating a temporary halt on a Pennsylvania suit challenging Erie Indemnity Co.'s collection of a management fee.
A group of 20 states and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday over what the coalition called unlawful and coercive new conditions on funding for programs like school lunches and food assistance.
A Meta attorney's gaffe and Mark Zuckerberg's testimony in the closely watched social media addiction bellwether trial, and an announced $7.25 billion settlement by Bayer over Roundup weedkiller claims, lead Law360's Injury Law Roundup.
The Third Circuit on Monday sided with a nuclear power company in a dispute with an electrical workers union over contributions to employee healthcare premiums, holding that the union couldn't force issues out of court because their disagreement was outside the scope of the collective bargaining agreement's arbitration provision.
The Trump administration says a Minnesota federal judge erred by holding a government attorney in contempt after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flouted a court order, claiming the lawyer was "wrongfully held captive to induce ICE's compliance."
The federal judiciary on Tuesday upheld the latest extension of Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's suspension and the decision not to transfer her case to another circuit, finding neither to be unconstitutional.
SCOTUSblog founder and appellate icon Thomas Goldstein has filed a lengthy motion for a new trial or acquittal after his conviction on a dozen criminal charges related to tax evasion, alleging his trial was marred by improper jury instructions, improper exclusion of evidence and inadequate evidence, among other things.
A new federal anti-fraud task force involving at least a dozen federal agencies could soon expose more state and local governments, contractors, companies and others to compliance risks, particularly in healthcare fraud and False Claims Act cases, experts say.
A Florida state judge is facing a public reprimand after admitting to becoming frustrated with attorneys in an estate dispute and saying that he "would like to tell the deputy to pull his gun and shoot all three of you," according to records filed Tuesday in the state's high court.
A former Reed Smith LLP attorney suing the firm for underpaying her based on her gender criticized the firm for its "inexcusable delay and attempted meandering" in seeking to resume deposing her years after her last deposition date.
Beasley Allen urged the New Jersey Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a lower court's decision to disqualify it from representing plaintiffs in multicounty litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder, arguing that the court's immediate review of the interlocutory order is "essential."